Images by 🇸🇰🐺Marko Pastierik🌲 (@marko_ladislav_pastierik)

“Who dares wins” motto used by the british SAS could very well apply to Venice , this basilica is the best example why . Built to the glory of Evangelist Mark whose remains were according to the legend , smuggled in a barrel of rotting pork meat from muslim occupied Alexandria in 828 . Above the entrance , four ancient bronze horses , stolen after the sack of Constantinople in 1204 during the infamous fourth crusade , which paved the way for Venetian republic to later become the naval superpower of the Mediterranean , only rivaled by the Ottoman empire.
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